Advertising Agency Recruitment
Our recruitment expertise ensures advertising agencies find top professionals to drive impactful and successful campaigns.
Focussing on the advertising element of marketing, these agencies will devise a strategy and a media plan which contains all the essential advertising channels to deliver maximum impact from your campaign. Working with clients’ budgets, the agency will have preferential commercial relationships with media owners to purchase media on their behalf and utilise marketing channels to deliver their message, build their brand or acquire new customers.
Media buying happens across channels like search, radio, TV, Video on Demand and Out of Home etc. This is a highly commercial operation where commissions and fees paid to agencies will depend on budget and campaign performance, therefore having employees with a very commercial and successful trading approach to their role will be important.
Recruitment of account managers of all levels are very popular to deliver advertising solutions, especially when winning new clients. Client Services candidates must be reliable as they represent the agency when meeting and developing relationships with clients. Data has become so important for advertising, identifying trends and powering automation, with forward thinking agencies recruiting Data Science candidates.
Recruitment tends to be urgent, with new client wins demanding immediate resource in most areas as agencies earnings are linked to buying quality media that produces a return. By having recruitment agencies on their preferred supplier list (PSL) they can quickly access the best talent from agencies who know their business.
Our track record across our whole recruitment agency is second to none as advertising agency recruitment has been core to our business since launch in 2012. We know what kind of candidates suit the agency environment and always aim to provide candidates who have similar experience to ensure they slot right into the fast paced world of agency land. We fill the majority of advertising agency jobs that we work, meaning a superior service from high conversion rates from CV to placement.
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An advertising agency recruiter sources the account handling, media buying and data talent that agencies need to plan and deliver campaigns. Because agency earnings are tied to media performance, advertising agency recruitment tends to move fast - vacancies open the moment a new client is won, so agencies rely on recruiters already on their preferred supplier list to react immediately.
Account management is the most consistent hire, since client services staff represent the agency day-to-day. Alongside this, demand has grown for Data Science candidates as agencies use data to identify trends and automate media buying, plus specialist buyers across search, TV, radio, Video on Demand and Out of Home.
A specialist advertising agency recruitment agency understands the pace of agency life and puts forward candidates who already fit that environment, rather than candidates who need to adapt to it. This shows up in conversion rates - a higher proportion of shortlisted candidates get placed, and clients spend less time interviewing the wrong fit.
No - advertising agency recruitment spans the full career path, from junior account managers up to Managing Director level. It's common for a recruiter to place someone early in their career and then be asked, years later, to help that same person build out their own team once they've been promoted.
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